User talk:Tomcool~commonswiki

Image sizes

Hello welcome to Wikipedia Commons, regarding Image:Fort Pitt 1795 small.jpg and Image:Fort Pitt 1795 large.jpg, usually one won't have to upload several images in different sizes, as when used in articles they are just about always used as thumbnails and may be down- or upscaled as one would please. Furthermore it will help editors to find files by linking them to a category by adding [[Category:ExampleCategory]] to them. Happy editing and contributing! Scoo 21:31, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Easter calendar

Hi, you asked User:Den fjättrade ankan about this image, Image:Påsktavla ur Liljegrens Runlära (ur Sverige Runinskrifter).png. It is a table for determining the date of the Easter, "Computus", in the Julian calendar. It has a solar cycle of 28 days and a golden number between 1 and 19. Thuresson 13:48, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

In fact, it is a kind of w:Perpetual_calendar for determining the date of the Easter. Den fjättrade ankan 19:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Tomcool~commonswiki!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT 03:43, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

• Image:98883750 a494ae0c7d o.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
• Image:162480865 2094ad0890 o.jpg was uncategorized on 23 September 2009.

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Tomcool. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Tomcool~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:12, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

05:53, 21 April 2015 (UTC)